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Mary, Queen Consort of King James V, 1515-1560

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1515 - 1560

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Letter from Mary of Guise to Lord Vigilius a Zuichem dated 1555

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1547
Scope and Contents The document, which is a long clerk letter written in Latin 'on the Kalends of January in the year of our Salvation 1554', and signed 'The friend of your virtue Marie R', concerns itself with two Scotsmen, Robert Landis and George Kincaid, who had been imprisoned by John Vitner of Berg. One of them 'is almost destroyed by the filth of the prison' and 'the other is almost brought to extreme starvation by the delay in action and demands on his ruined fortune'. The letter goes on to say that...
Dates: 1554